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First Principles: Let Us Not Seek the Republican Answer Or the Democratic Answer, But the Right Answer. Let Us Not Seek To Fix the Blame For the Past. Let Us Accept Our Own Responsibility For the Future
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
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Thought For the Day: People Are Always Talking On Their Phones, Or Looking At Their Phones, Because They Don’t Want To Be Alone With Their Thoughts
“People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don’t want to be alone with their thoughts.” – Martin Amis
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Death Revealed Truths
Death Revealed Truthsby Michael DoyleWe don’t get more real than with death.The feeling of this stays until the last breath.If you’re not prepared to succumb and die,We need to focus on the how and the why.If you’re not ready for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Breath, Christianity, Death, Die, Faith, Flame, Focus, God, Gulf, Jesus, Live, Poetry and Poems, Revelation, Shadow, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Our Greatest Weakness Lies In Giving Up. The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is Always To Try Just One More Time
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
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First Principles: After Desire Has Conceived, It Gives Birth To Sin; and Sin, When It Is Full-Grown, Gives Birth To Death
“After desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” – James 1:15 NIV
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What To Make of Gifts
What To Make of Giftsby Michael DoyleThe season is almost upon us for givingYearly, as it is, in an average living. It has always been better to give than receive.This much, to be certain, I truly believe.The things of love, … Continue reading
First Principles: Every Step We Take Towards Making the State Our Caretaker of Our Lives, By That Much We Move Toward Making the State Our Master
“Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thought For the Day: Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom and Philosophy. Music Is the Electrical Soil In Which the Spirit Lives, Thinks, and Invents
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Tagged Electrical Soil, Higher Relvation, Invent, Live, Ludwig van Beethoven, Music, Philosophy, Spirit, Think, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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You Are My Waking Dream
You’re My Waking Dreamby Michael DoyleMany say that love is a journey.It’s felt that way in my memory.When we met, I knew my destinyWas the love between you and me.Whispers build their own monument,But I know that you are heaven-sent.From … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Clarify, Complete, Destiny, Devotion, Emotion, Every Word, Feeling, Felt, Follow, Hear, Heart, Heaven-Sent, Hello, Jounrey, Laugh, Love, Lovingly, Memory, Met, Monument, Natural Flow, Need, Ner, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Realize and Know, Reeling, Sing, Smile, Sweet Eyes, Tender, True Cause, Truth, Wait, Waking Dream, Whisper, You and I
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First Principles: Once A Government Is Committed To the Principles of Silencing the Voice of Opposition, It Has Only One Way To Go, and That Is Down the Path of Increasingly Repressive Measures
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all … Continue reading
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